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A review by sidharthvardhan
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
5.0
Okay! I will say it. If there was ever a book that should be made a compulsory than its this. It is from now on, my most favorite book - the numero uno, and I bet it shall be all my life. I have seen several media adoptions and parodies; and had also read a dramatic adoption back in my school - so I thought it would be slightly boring. However, it was enchanting. You could read the book and know its strength is in more than the unique plot (of ghosts).
The narration is beautiful and pleasantly humorous. Dickens made Scrooge the very opposite of spirit of Christmas. There is still hope for him though. When taken to Bob's and his nephew's house, he gets completely indulged in the activities - shouting and laughing. I personally believe that he has been made all more Scrooge-y in media adoptions. Here he is quick and even eager to learn his lessons, as if he had been waiting to learn them all his life. Perhaps he is made his anti-Christmas self by his ignorance (as is shown in a scene) of what he is missing.
Even the story has many details omitted in adoptions. Every word, every little action and reaction gives a new insight. The very concept of three spirits - past, present and future shakes you into self -reflection. How many people will will weep on my death? Am I too far removed from world? You see Scrooge as a lesson what not to be. At least in one aspect we are becoming more like Scrooge. We are growing apart. Some even from their family but mostly from other weaker sections of society, 'surplus population' as Scrooge had called them, the real world Tiny Tims. A Christmas Carol is a good reminder these values, we seems to be loosing - and this one has the sweetest music.
The narration is beautiful and pleasantly humorous. Dickens made Scrooge the very opposite of spirit of Christmas. There is still hope for him though. When taken to Bob's and his nephew's house, he gets completely indulged in the activities - shouting and laughing. I personally believe that he has been made all more Scrooge-y in media adoptions. Here he is quick and even eager to learn his lessons, as if he had been waiting to learn them all his life. Perhaps he is made his anti-Christmas self by his ignorance (as is shown in a scene) of what he is missing.
Even the story has many details omitted in adoptions. Every word, every little action and reaction gives a new insight. The very concept of three spirits - past, present and future shakes you into self -reflection. How many people will will weep on my death? Am I too far removed from world? You see Scrooge as a lesson what not to be. At least in one aspect we are becoming more like Scrooge. We are growing apart. Some even from their family but mostly from other weaker sections of society, 'surplus population' as Scrooge had called them, the real world Tiny Tims. A Christmas Carol is a good reminder these values, we seems to be loosing - and this one has the sweetest music.